Safety tips, Flint warming center locations for extreme winter weather
By EVM Staff With yet more snow today and temperatures dipping into the negatives again later this week, Consumers Energy has shared safety tips for extreme winter cold. Per a press release this Friday, the energy company offered the following advice around heating...
Commentary: What to look for in Michigan, Flint elections and more in 2026
By Paul Rozycki If 2025 offered any guidance, 2026 will be a year of challenging and unpredictable events. While there are a number of things that are sure to draw our attention in national politics this year, it’s worth taking a look at what we might face on the...
Education Beat: Flint Schools continue to face student enrollment, test score challenges
By Harold C. Ford Heading into the new year, Flint Community Schools (FCS) remains troubled by declining student enrollment and low standardized test scores. Student enrollment “We’re going to have to look at enrollment,” said a chagrined Joyce...
Mott Foundation invites Flint residents to apply for neighborhood grants
By EVM Staff As part of its centennial celebration, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has granted $600,000 to Genesee County Habitat for Humanity to support projects that Flint residents propose and lead to strengthen their neighborhoods. According to a Mott...
Village Life: A little post-holiday magic?
By Kate Stockrahm If it were up to me, our holiday lights would be down already. Maybe that makes me sound like old Ebenezer (before the ghosts), but so be it. We’re just two days into January as I write this, and all I want to do as I look out onto our snow-dusted...
Opinion: Demolishing our past isn’t the only way to move Flint Central forward
By Ashly Harris and Ezekiel Harris Since the closure of Flint Central High School in 2009, our community has discussed what it would take to bring this site back to life — the beating heart of a reviving public school district. As parents of two young children...
What’s going on with that $645 million in cancelled State funding?
By Kate Stockrahm A lot has happened since East Village Magazine (EVM) first reported on the Michigan House Appropriations Committee vote to cancel roughly $645 million in funding from last year's budget in December. The State Senate requested an opinion from Attorney...
Flint Bucks alum Donovan Phillip wins highest individual honor in NCAA soccer
By EVM Staff Flint City Bucks alumnus Donavan “Gusto” Phillip has won the 2025 MAC Hermann Trophy, awarded to the NCAA Division I (D1) men’s soccer player of the year. The award, based on voting by D1 coaches, is considered the highest individual honor in college...
UM-Flint to relaunch Michigan Times
By Kate Stockrahm The Michigan Times is coming back. The University of Michigan-Flint’s student newspaper, which covered the campus from 1959 until the end of the 2023-2024 academic year, is relaunching on January 14, 2026. “I’m really excited,” Ramla Ouedraogo, the...
Mott Community College president issues statement after weekend shooting on campus
By EVM Staff Mott Community College (MCC) president Shaunda Richardson-Snell has issued a statement following a shooting on campus over the weekend. The shooting, according to an MCC press release on January 10, 2026, took place on Saturday at around 3:45 p.m. The...
The East Village Magazine – January 2026
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Communities First, Inc. to host free ‘Community Vision Board Party’ on Jan. 9
By EVM Staff Communities First, Inc. (CFI) is inviting area residents to kick off the new year "with purpose and creativity" at its Community Vision Board Party on Friday, January 9, 2026 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The event will take place at the non-profit's Coolidge...
Firebirds hockey ablaze, Coach Flache breaks win record
By Nathan Waters The Flint Firebirds are living up to their moniker, proving to be one of the hottest teams in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) through the first half of the season.The Firebirds, who just crossed the halfway point of their 2025-26 season, sit atop the...
Nominating petitions for Flint mayor, council members available next week
By EVM Staff Nominating petitions for Flint mayor and city council member will be available beginning Monday, January 5, 2026 at the City Clerk’s Office. According to a December 30, 2025 press release from the Flint City Clerk's office, the deadline for filing...
Looking back at 2025: A year of change, conflict and challenge
By Paul Rozycki On the national political scene, 2025 has been a year of dramatic turmoil and change. In the less than 12 months since President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, the nation has faced challenges and changes that surpass many in recent...
Two Flint City Bucks players drafted in 2026 MLS SuperDraft
By EVM Staff Two players from the Flint City Bucks were selected by Major League Soccer (MLS) teams Thursday afternoon during the 2026 MLS SuperDraft. According to a Bucks press release, Nolan Miller (senior, University of Michigan) was picked ninth overall by...
Village Life: Thanks to my heroes
By Daniel Vela As a child attending Neithercut Elementary, I wanted nothing more than to don the bright orange sash and shiny silver badge worn by student crossing guards. But such an important responsibility was reserved solely for the privileged few: the ever so...
FIM receives $25k grant to support new music, performance for Independence Day celebration
By EVM Staff FIM announced a $25,000 grant yesterday that will support the performance of a newly-commissioned piece of music this summer. In its December 18, 2025 announcement, FIM explained that the grant came from the National Endowment for the Arts...
Flint Board of Ed. may reconsider final Central High School design
By Kate Stockrahm Despite a unanimous vote earlier this month, the final design of Flint's former Central High School and Whittier Classical Academy campus may not be so final. At the tail end of an over four-hour long meeting last night — which had already covered...
Friends of the Alley brings holiday cheer to downtown Flint
By Kate Stockrahm Heading downtown tonight? Look up! Friends of the Alley (FOTA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to beautifying and activating downtown Flint’s alleyways, has swapped some of its signature soft-yellow overhead bulbs for a more colorful holiday look...
City of Flint shares holiday hours, adjusted waste collection schedule
By EVM Staff Flint City Hall will be closed multiple days in observance of the upcoming holidays. According to a City of Flint press release on December 17, 2025, Flint City Hall will be closed to the public Dec. 24 and Dec. 25 in observance of Christmas as well as...
‘A Facility for Living’ Review: Laughing over despots in elder care dystopia
By Jan Worth My friend and I, both women in our mid-70s, took our seats for a matinee performance of the FIM Flint Repertory Theatre’s “A Facility for Living,” with a hefty dose of skepticism and dread. After all, the play, continuing through Dec. 21 at...
Education Beat: Board of Ed. confirms design, plans for Fall 2028 reopening of Flint Central High School
By Harold C. Ford Over the course of two recent meetings, the Flint Board of Education (FBOE), unanimously adopted a design and timeline toward reopening the long-abandoned and deteriorating Central-Whittier campus at 601 Court St. by the fall of 2028. The votes...
The East Village Magazine – December 2025
In our December 2025 edition, Paul Rozycki reflects on a year of national political turmoil. Harold C. Ford reports the approved plan to open a reimagined Flint Central High School. Daniel Vela shares a story of community inspiration. Finally, We express our gratitude...
The Michigan House just cancelled $645 million in state funding, how that impacts Flint is still unclear
By Kate Stockrahm Michigan’s House Appropriations Committee voted to cancel roughly $645 million in allocated but as-yet unspent state funding from its 2025 budget on Wednesday. What that means for Flint organizations that were promised those funds remains unclear...
